Atlas de los pueblos de Europa occidental

La palabra «América» está llena de reminiscencias, nos sugiere a la vez las civilizaciones desaparecidas, los conquistadores, los puritanos y los franceses «madereros», los esclavos y los filibusteros, los gauchos, los plantadores, los inmigrantes que desembarcaron en Nueva York, los «barones del café» brasileños, los indios que cultivan la coca... El continente americano se hace acreedor de su nombre de «Nuevo Mundo» cuando nos referimos a sus pueblos. Todos ellos son el resultado de la fusión de poblaciones en su mayoría procedentes de otros lugares. El Atlas de los pueblos de ...

Este es el segundo y último volumen de la historia del Partido Nacionalista Vasco y de sus avatares en la política de Euskadi y de España. Si en el primer volumen aparecido en 1999 se abordaba la evolución del partido desde su fundación por Sabino Arana en 1895 hasta la rebelión militar de julio de 1936, este segundo volumen se ocupa del papel desempeñado por el PNV durante la guerra civil española, la represión, el exilio, el período de clandestinidad y, por fin, la transición a la democracia hasta 1979. La combinación pendular de esencialismo doctrinal y posibilismo estratégico ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...